Vlad Popescu

Vlad Popescu became involved in agriculture in 2011, when he started working at Norofert, which was his family business. Being a fresh graduate, he begun by delivering products to the farmers, getting acquainted with the agri-business. In 2013, he took over the sales position for the company and has overlooked all the sales processes in Norofert. In 2015, he took over the business from his father and decided to restructure it as well as opened the production facility and hired the team of researchers in order to be able to locally produce organic fertilizers of the highest quality. Under Vlad’s management, Norofert successfully shifted its business model, introduced a rich line of organic products as well as launched the revolutionary product on the European market, the effervescent tablet, which helped the company reach revenues of RON 9 million, and a 40% profitability margin in 2018.

Cristian Logofatu

Cristian Logofătu is the co-founder and CFO of the first IT company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Bittnet Group. In a little over 4 years since listing on BVB’s AeRO market, Bittnet grew from 7,5 million lei in market capitalisation to 140 million lei in market cap. In the same period of time, Bittnet managed to attract 10 million euro of capital through different capital markets financing mechanisms, money that was directed into an M&A activity. Today, Bittnet Group encompasses the following brands: Bittnet Training, Dendrio, ELIAN Solutions and Equatorial. Since listing on BVB, Bittnet company has received multiple awards for implementing the highest corporate governance and investor relations standards.

Zuzanna Kurek

Zuzanna Kurek is the co-founder and Partner at Cornerstone Communciations, the first pan-European investor relations and financial communication firm, with offices in Bucharest, Romania and Warsaw, Poland. Lawyer by education, Zuzanna has 6+ years of experience in working in Romanian capital markets and has assisted local entrepreneurs as well as listed companies in many aspects related to implementing highest investor relations and communications standards. Prior to starting Cornerstone Communications, she held the position of Business Development & Marketing Director at the Bucharest Stock Exchange (2016-2018), where she was entrusted with projects intended to promote Romanian capital markets to entrepreneurs as well as improving corporate governance and IR standards within listed companies.